By MARK HANOK
Since the jet stream will
stay far to the north and high
pressure will become nearly
stationary off the East Coast,
the dry and sunny weather
pattern will continue in the
Cooperstown area.A series of
weak troughs will slide to
the north early next week,
but dry conditions will prevail
for much of the time.
On Friday, temperatures
will soar to near 90 degrees
with sunshine and humid
air. As the southwest flow
continues around high pressure
over the mid-Atlantic
states, look for hazy sunshine
and humid conditions
with highs in the mid- to upper
80s.
On Sunday, humid air
will continue in place with
partly sunny skies, and the
chance of a shower or thunderstorm
in the afternoon or
early evening; highs will be
from 83 to 88 degrees.
More of the same kind of
weather will continue on
Monday, as high pressure
continues along the East
Coast — partly sunny with
scattered showers and thunderstorms
in the afternoon
and evening, and highs from
82 to 87 degrees.
On Tuesday, a weak cold
front will approach from the
eastern Great Lakes, and
skies will be partly sunny
with scattered showers and
thunderstorms, but most of
the day will feature dry
weather. Highs will be in the
lower 80s.
Mark Hanok is an Otegobased
meteorologist. You
can visit him on the World
Wide Web at http://members.
aol.com/weathergazette.
Weather Watch
July 17, 2008
Weather Watch
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- Weather watch The Susquehanna River level will be unusually low for the General Clinton Canoe Regatta during Memorial Day weekend.
- Weather Watch It’s really uncanny how the very dry weather pattern has continued in this area despite the succession of major storms that have moved to the west and south.
- Weather Watch Now that north has become a synonym for sunshine and south has become a synonym for rain, there’s no way that this extremely dry weather pattern can change at least for the next four weeks.
- Weather Watch March was the third straight month with below normal precipitation, and it looks like April will also turn out to be drier than normal.
- Weather Watch Temperatures were near normal in March, with precipitation around an inch below normal.
- Weather Watch On Friday a major storm will move to the Ohio Valley, while high pressure builds southward from eastern Canada. Skies will be partly sunny with highs from 55 to 60 degrees.
- Weather Watch When it’s warmer to the north and cooler to the south, it’s so easy to get into an extremely dry weather pattern in Otsego County. The weather forecast in last week’s weather column was more optimistic than other local weather forecasts, but the weather was actually much better than even we predicted.
- Weather Watch The jet stream will shift southward this week and a series of low pressure systems will move well to our south.
- Weather Watch Exactly as we predicted at the beginning of the month, it was one of the driest Februaries on record in Otsego County and throughout most of central and eastern New York. Thanks to the extreme upside-down temperature pattern with much warmer weather in Montana than in Georgia, and strong winds on Monday and Tuesday, an extremely dry weather pattern will be the theme for at least the next two to three weeks.
- Weather Watch Exactly as we’ve been predicting for the past month, this is turning out to be an exceptionally dry February - one of the driest on record in central and eastern New York.
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